Militants deny access for OSCE official to prisons with hostages in Donbas – Ukraine envoy

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"I want to say that, for example, a coordinator at the humanitarian subgroup visited the occupied territories, and he was not allowed to meet with the hostages,” Gerashchenko told the Ukrainian TV Channel 5.

“There is no explanation to this. Pardon me, but the Ukrainian prisons are available for visits by humanitarian missions so that they could see the conditions, in which those who had violated the law, are held," said Gerashchenko.

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